Luca Lusanna

Non-Inertial Frames and Dirac Observables in Relativity (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Describes global non-inertial frames in special and general relativity and provides a detailed description of mathematical methods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108575768
• Artikelnr.: 70914053

Autorenporträt

Luca Lusanna is a retired research director of the Firenze section of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), of which he has been the President for five years. He is a fellow of the General Relativity and Gravitation Society, the Italian Physical Society, and Fellow and President of the General Relativity and Gravitation Italian Society. Since 2009, he has been the director of the Theoretical Topical Team of the ACES mission of ESA, tasked with putting an atomic clock on the International Space Station.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Special Relativity: Minkowski Space-time: 1. Galilei and Minkowski space-times
2. Global non-inertial frames in special relativity
3. Relativistic dynamics and the relativistic center of mass
4. Matter in the rest-frame instant form of dynamics
Part II. General Relativity: Globally Hyperbolic Einstein Space-Times: 5. Hamiltonian gravity in Einstein space-times
6. ADM tetrad gravity and its constraints
7. Post-Minkowskian and post-Newtonian approximations
Part III. Dirac-Bergmann Theory of Constraints: 8. Singular Lagrangians and constraint theory
9. Dirac observables invariant under the Hamiltonian gauge transformations generated by first-class constraints
10. Concluding remarks and open problems
Appendix A. Canonical realizations of lie algebras, Poincare' group, Poincare' orbits and Wigner boosts
Appendix B. Grassmann variables and pseudo-classical Lagrangian
Appendix C. Relativistic perfect fluids and covariant relativistic thermo-dynamics
References
Index.